Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but my pal Marcia has discovered that the new browser Google Chrome is for Windows only.  I’ve only tried it on Vista, but I haven’t had any problems.

And I’ve heard several disappointed folks discuss that the Delicious bookmarking tools aren’t Chrome compatible yet.  I didn’t quite realize how Delicious-addicted I had become until I couldn’t use it with Chrome.Â

Did I mention that my old laptop died right before ALA, while I was on a writing retreat? Those who know me know that I have phantom limb syndrome without my laptop near at hand, so I bought a new one — a rather expensive California souvenir.

I had no choice but to get Vista, and I admit that while it is pretty, it has some weird “hang-ups.”  But one of the things that it does have that I missed from my Mac days is the “Snipping Tool,” which lets you choose which part of a screenshot you want to copy.  (Like Snag-It — but free!).

You might not find this feature unless you know to look for it, because it isn’t automatically installed by Windows.  Go to your START button and start typing “snipping tool” in the search box.  If you have just the right version of Vista (it doesn’t work on the most basic version of Vista), snipping tool will come up in the menu above.  Make sure you are on the page from which you’ll take the screenshot, then start up the snipping tool.

Here are some tricks for using the snipping tool.